§ 57. Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many jobs were placed with the Professional Executive Register in each of the past five years; if he will give the corresponding figures for those jobs filled; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe information requested for each of the past five years ended 31 March, is as follows:
Year Total placings into employment* Net cost per placing † £
Total orders notified‡ 1979–80 6,696 514.23 16,878 1980–81 4,938 1,134.96 14,943 1981–82 7,088 690.52 17,950 1982–83 7,717 548.83 17,448 1983–84 13,838 nil 22,159 * Includes placings on to the community programme and the former community enterprise programme. † The net cost per job for 1979–80 to 1982–83 has been calculated by dividing the social subvention to Professional and Executive Recruitment net of any profit or less on commercial activities, by the total number of placings into employment. From 1 April 1983, Professional and Executive Recruitment has been operating on a self-financing basis and
Wage Inspectorate Division Area covered Number of Establishments (1983) London (East) the London postal districts of N, E, EC, and SE 21,380 London (West) the London postal districts of NW, W, WC and SW 24,056 South Eastern the counties of Kent, Surrey and East and West Sussex 30,826 Southern the counties of Berkshire, Buckingham, Hertford, Oxford, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and parts of the London Boroughs of Enfield, Harrow, Hillingdon, Brent, Hounslow, Ealing and Richmond-upon-Thames 29,204 Eastern the counties of Bedford, Cambridge, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk 27,617 South Western the counties of Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire 34,000 Midlands (East) the counties of Derby (except the High Peak District of Derby), Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham 22,912 Midlands (West) the counties of Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Stafford, Warwick and The West Midlands 32,080 North West (West) the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, the Metropolitan District of Wigan and that part of Cheshire on the Wirral 26,912 North West (East) the counties of Manchester, Cheshire (excluding that part on the Wirral) and the High Peace District of Derby 24,669 Yorkshire and Humberside the counties of North, West and South Yorkshire, and Humberside 36,034 Northern the counties of Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and Tyne-and-Wear 20,884 Scotland (East) the regions of Highland, Grampian, Tayside, most of Central, Fife, Lothian, Borders, Orkney and Shetland 22,232 Scotland (West) the regions of Dumfries and Galloway, Strathclyde and part of the west of Central 16,398 Wales the counties of Dyfed, West, Mid and South Glamorgan, Gwent, Powys, Gwynedd and Clwyd 22,067